For metal fabrication shops
Inventory and costing software for metal fabrication shops. Know what every part really costs.
Steel comes in 20 ft sticks, you cut it by the inch, and every part eats weld wire, gas, discs and paint. The quote is a guess unless all of that, and the minutes, are in it. Every feature for $19. Tell us how you work and we set it up for you, free.
- Cost per part: $15.61 in our example
- Work order
- Can make
Updated . Example prices checked on supplier sites the same month.
What metal fabrication shops see on day one
From materials on the shelf to a real cost per part
01 · Cost per part
A part recipe with steel, minutes and consumables
Inches of flat bar, minutes on the saw, welder and grinder, minutes of your time, and the wire, gas and discs each part uses. Stockria shows the cost per part.
02 · Work order
A job that collects its real cost
Open a work order, log time on each machine and person, and use steel as you cut it. The total is what the job really cost.
03 · Can make
How many parts can I cut from the rack?
Each part shows how many you can make from the steel on hand, and which stock runs out first.
A worked example
What one part really costs: $15.61
Steel L shelf bracket. Small fab shops often run 10 to 50 of a part at a time. This example makes 20 L-shaped shelf brackets, each from 20 in of 1/4 x 2 in flat bar, cut, welded, ground and painted.
| Material | Used | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| A36 flat bar 1/4 x 2 in, 20 ft stick$28.56 for 20 ft | 400 in | $47.60 |
| Weld wire, gas, discs and paint$2.86 for 1 piece | 20 | $57.20 |
| Labour: 4 h at $35.00/hr | $140.00 | |
| Time on the machine: 2 h at $25.00/hr | $50.00 | |
| Setup, 30 minutes once per job | $17.50 | |
| Total for 20 parts | $312.30 | |
| Cost per part | $15.61 | |
At a 30% margin the price is $22.31 per part. See every step in how to price a fabricated metal part, or change the numbers below.
Where the example prices come from
- A36 flat bar 1/4 x 2 in, 20 ft stick: $28.56 for 20 ft, from Bulk Metal Sales (freight or pickup extra), checked October 4, 2026.
- MIG wire ER70S-6 .030: $56.10 for 12.5 lb, from Cyberweld, checked October 4, 2026.
- Shielding gas refill, 80 cu ft: $75.00 for 80 cu ft, a typical local welding gas supplier price. Check yours.
- Cut-off wheel 4.5 in: $3.15 for 1 piece, from Cyberweld, checked October 4, 2026.
- Flap disc 4.5 in, 60 grit: $8.90 for 1 piece, from Cyberweld, checked October 4, 2026.
- Spray enamel, 12 oz can: $8.50 for 1 piece, a typical hardware store price. Check yours.
Prices change and shipping is extra. They are here to make the example real, not as a quote. Put your own prices in the calculator.
Try it with your own metal fabrication numbers
The example is filled in. Change any price or amount. No signup.
The share of the price you keep as profit. 50% means the price is twice your cost.
Example prices, October 2026. Change them to yours.
Quote for 20 parts
$446.14
That is $22.31 per part, with a profit of $133.84 on the job.
Keep this recipe. Stockria saves it with your materials, so the cost updates when a price changes and each batch you make takes stock off the shelf.
Straight answers
What metal fabrication shops ask before they switch
"I buy 20 ft sticks and cut them by the inch."
Set the unit you buy in and the unit you use, once. Receive sticks by the foot, cut by the inch or the mm, and Stockria keeps the count and the cost per inch right.
"Wire, gas, discs and paint never make it into my quotes."
Work out what they cost per part once, from what a batch uses, and add it to the part's recipe. Every quote after that includes them.
"I don't know if a job made money until the month is over."
Open a work order for the job and log the minutes and the steel as you go. Stockria shows the real cost of the job next to the price you quoted.
"I don't want a bill that grows every time I get busy."
It doesn't. Stockria is a flat monthly price. It does not change with your orders, your sales or your number of items. Pro is $19 a month. You only move to a bigger plan when you add more people or more locations.
"I don't want to pay extra to unlock batches or work orders."
You won't. Every feature is on every plan, Free included: recipes, work orders, work in progress, lots and expiry dates, machines and labour, purchase orders and reports. Plans only differ by items, users and locations. Free covers 250 items, and raw materials count as items.
An honest comparison
What metal fabrication shops use today, and what it costs
Public prices, checked in October 2026. If something has changed, email hello@stockria.com and we fix the page. If you plan production across several factories with a full-time planner, a manufacturing platform is the better fit. Stockria is built for the small workshop.
Common questions
Questions from metal fabrication shops
Look for steel tracked by length from sticks bought by the foot, machines and people with hourly rates, work orders that log real minutes, and a cost per part you can quote from. Stockria has all of these on every plan.
Yes. Buy 20 ft sticks, use the steel by the inch or the mm, and Stockria converts every time.
Divide what a batch uses by the parts it makes. If 20 brackets use 2 lb of wire and 17 cu ft of gas, each bracket carries a twentieth of both.
Yes. Sell the job at cost plus a margin or a markup and send it as a quote or a sales order. The job keeps its real cost so you can compare.
Yes. Repeat parts get a recipe. One-off jobs get a work order where you log material and time as you go.
The free plan has every feature, with limits on items, users and locations. Paid plans add more when you need them. The price is flat and does not grow with your orders.
Pricing
One flat price.
Everything included.
No surprises.
Every feature on every plan. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature, never a surprise.
Free
All features included. No credit card required.
Free
Free forever. No credit card, no trial that expires.
- Up to 250 items
- 1 user
- 1 location
- All integrations
Pro
All features included. For growing businesses.
$19
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 2 users
- 2 locations
- All integrations
- free setup assistance
Business
All features. For growing teams and a few locations.
$39
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 8 users
- 5 locations
- All integrations
- priority support
- free setup assistance
Growth
For bigger teams and multi-location operations.
$89
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 25 users
- Unlimited locations
- All integrations
- priority support
- dedicated onboarding
Why it costs less
No setup fees, no per-item pricing, and no expensive sales and onboarding to pay for. Stockria is built lean and earns more only when your business grows into more users or locations. That is the whole model, and it is why your price stays flat and will not jump on you as you add products.
Switch plans or cancel anytime. All plans include: barcode scanning, low-stock alerts, reorder points, stock counts, stock adjustments, stock transfers, purchase orders, sales orders, customer quotes, pick lists, returns, partial receiving and payments, product variants, bills of materials, manufacturing orders, lot and batch tracking, serial numbers, multi-location tracking, team access with custom roles, activity history, check-in/check-out, custom fields, price lists, cost tracking, barcode label printing, reports, dashboards, CSV import/export, offline mode, Shopify, Amazon, Square, QuickBooks, and Xero sync, and many more features.
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